generalfrevious

CatBus said:

Just a reminder to the kids out there that when it came time to impeach Nixon, a majority of the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee voted against all of the proposed articles of impeachment. If not for the Democratic majority, the articles of impeachment would never have made it out of committee (if indeed they were even considered), and he may not have resigned at all.

We’re in a situation where Nixon doesn’t resign, but also wins a third term.

Trump purged Comey to stop the investigation. He is not going down, he is flexing the iron fist.

Jetrell Fo said:

generalfrevious said:

Jeebus said:

generalfrevious said:

Donald Trump is going to stay in power for the rest of his natural life. The Russia scandal won’t sink him, he might even stop the investigations altogether in the coming weeks. Even if he somehow leaves office after two terms, he has already changed the Supreme Court for the next forty years, so any action against right-wing hegemony will be struck down immediately.

Meanwhile, the standard of living is going to plummet hard, as over half of Americans will be living under the poverty line by 2050, most people won’t even live past sixty, and a few dozen extremely rich families will make more money in a couple hours than 300 million combined in their lifetime. We will be worse off than the poorest African countries are today.

And there is nothing we can do about it.

Have you ever considered becoming an Alternative History writer?

This isn’t alternate history. If you drive to any rural part of this country, the abject poverty is already there. There are states where, if they were seperate nations, would be some of the poorest in the world.

There is no Russian scandal. There never was. But you and others believing there is … ensures that there was one. Stop being sheople and do your own thinking, your own research, decide for yourself.

the Russian scandal is irrelevant to the decades long trend of income inequality in the US. The wealthy earn so much money it’s actually distorting our per capital GDP; factor out the top 1% and we would be much lower ranked than we are now. I don’t think we can even call ourselves a developed country anymore.

Jeebus said:

generalfrevious said:

Donald Trump is going to stay in power for the rest of his natural life. The Russia scandal won’t sink him, he might even stop the investigations altogether in the coming weeks. Even if he somehow leaves office after two terms, he has already changed the Supreme Court for the next forty years, so any action against right-wing hegemony will be struck down immediately.

Meanwhile, the standard of living is going to plummet hard, as over half of Americans will be living under the poverty line by 2050, most people won’t even live past sixty, and a few dozen extremely rich families will make more money in a couple hours than 300 million combined in their lifetime. We will be worse off than the poorest African countries are today.

And there is nothing we can do about it.

Have you ever considered becoming an Alternative History writer?

This isn’t alternate history. If you drive to any rural part of this country, the abject poverty is already there. There are states where, if they were seperate nations, would be some of the poorest in the world.

Donald Trump is going to stay in power for the rest of his natural life. The Russia scandal won’t sink him, he might even stop the investigations altogether in the coming weeks. Even if he somehow leaves office after two terms, he has already changed the Supreme Court for the next forty years, so any action against right-wing hegemony will be struck down immediately.

Meanwhile, the standard of living is going to plummet hard, as over half of Americans will be living under the poverty line by 2050, most people won’t even live past sixty, and a few dozen extremely rich families will make more money in a couple hours than 300 million combined in their lifetime. We will be worse off than the poorest African countries are today.

And there is nothing we can do about it.

I’m so glad the internet didn’t exist in the 1930s.

TV’s Frink said:

Yep. Frevious way wrong as usual.

I’m glad I was wrong this time.

Jetrell Fo said:

generalfrevious said:

TV’s Frink said:

Random but relevant and accurate.

I know about 216 other people who are the exact same thing.

You know about 216 crappy Republicans that look like Paul Ryan?

They voted like Ryan a couple days ago.

TV’s Frink said:

Random but relevant and accurate.

I know about 216 other people who are the exact same thing.

DuracellEnergizer said:

generalfrevious said:

I have no faith in humanity anymore.

Again?

How will you feel in 2025, when 20 million people are murdered by the time Trump leaves office?

Second wave fascism (aka right-wing populism) has been getting a second wind in the last few days with the House passing the AHCA. So I won’t be surprised when Len Pen wins and destroys the EU by taking France out. People don’t have any idea how popular the National Front is with young people over there.

I have no faith in humanity anymore.

TV’s Frink said:

generalfrevious said:

CatBus said:

Macron campaign’s e-mails are now out on the Internet, unknown at this point if they were altered by Russian intelligence to give the appearance of impropriety like some of the Clinton campaign e-mails were. Le Pen campaign appears mysteriously immune from hackers. Election in two days.

Le pen is definitely going to win.

Bookmarked for Sunday when you’re wrong.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/le-pen-is-just-a-gargantuan-polling-error-behind-macron/

Donald Trump was just a normal polling error behind Hillary Clinton on the eve of the 2016 presidential election. The far-right National Front candidate in France, Marine Le Pen, by contrast, is an enormous, historic polling error behind the centrist En Marche! candidate Emmanuel Macron.

Le Pen is still going to win. France will fall yet again in another electoral upset.

Pollsters thought Hillary was going to win because people concealed their racism when interviewed.

CatBus said:

Macron campaign’s e-mails are now out on the Internet, unknown at this point if they were altered by Russian intelligence to give the appearance of impropriety like some of the Clinton campaign e-mails were. Le Pen campaign appears mysteriously immune from hackers. Election in two days.

Le pen is definitely going to win. Goodbye EU, hello to Russian domination of of the continent for years to come.

Napoleon. Hitler. Putin. Every hundred years.

TV’s Frink said:

24 million people were probably going to lose insurance under the previous failed bill, per the CBO. It’s unknown how many people would potentially lose insurance under this plan, and the Senate is sure to make fairly severe amendments to it as well. And of course, losing insurance does not equal death for a large number of people. For some, yes, and that will be blood on the Republican’s hands (and all because they can’t stop themselves from creating more giveaways to the rich while fucking over the poor)…but your exaggerations do not help your points at all.

Do you know who we are up against? We have a president that only does not respect the law or any morals whatsoever, but openly flaunts and brags about it.

I think the impending deaths of 24 million people is more important right now than a stupid twitter post.

This is why the DNC shouldn’t have pushed Hillary to run in the first place. Didn’t they know the Clintons are the most hated and scandal-plagued family to conservative Republicans? That running an out-of-touch establishment candidate against a fascist demagogue at the wrong time is a recipe for disaster? Now Obama is a footnote in history, 24 million people are going to lose their health insurance, and the Supreme Court is going to halt any progress well into the 2060s. Their stupidity has ruined this nation forever.

Warbler said:

generalfrevious said:

Warbler said:

I’m not sure that is possible.

Donald Trump is president now. What was unthinkable in US history prior is just another day for these regressive scum.

Trump doesn’t have say over Senate rules.

Maybe, but that doesn’t stop senate republicans from digging up obscure rules to silence the opposition, like when they silenced Elizabeth Warren a couple months ago.

Jetrell Fo said:

generalfrevious said:

Warbler said:

I’m not sure that is possible.

What was unthinkable in US history prior is just another day for these regressive scum.

You’re too narrow-minded. History is littered with examples of what you say was unthinkable.

😦

But it has never happened in the US before.

Trump’s dictatorship is simply unprecedented. We have never had a president installed by a foreign power before; we have never had the cabinet staffed with so many people hostile to a large percentage of the American people before.

Hitler did not have a nuclear football at his side, Stalin died not long after the Soviets went nuclear, Kim Jong-Un still can’t get his ICBMs working (as of now), and the countless lesser dictators of the last fifty years surely did not have enough nukes to wipe out civilization six times over.

We have never faced two existential threats (nuclear winter and climate change) before, and never before have we had a leader who showed up at the worst possible moment for humanity. I was always feared Trump becoming president, and now that he is starting to tighten his grip on power I am being proven right.

Warbler said:

I’m not sure that is possible.

Donald Trump is president now. What was unthinkable in US history prior is just another day for these regressive scum.

Warbler said:

generalfrevious said:

Warbler said:

generalfrevious said:

Warbler said:

hopefully the bill will get filibustered in the Senate.

They’ll just extend the nuclear option again.

I don’t know if they are willing to go that far. It is one thing to get rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court confirmations, but quite another to get rid of it altogether. Also remember the Republicans must consider the future when the Dems have the majority in the Senate.

They’re not going to abolish altogether at once; they’ll chisel at it step by step during the next eighteen months. They’re going to make sure the democrats never gain a majority in the senate in the near future.

If they get rid of it for regular bills(which is what they would have to do to get a around a filibuster on this bill), just what would be left of it to chisel at for the next 18 months?

They could abolish filibusters for just Healthcare bills at first, then extend it to other laws the democrats wouldn’t like over the next few months until none are left.

Warbler said:

generalfrevious said:

Warbler said:

hopefully the bill will get filibustered in the Senate.

They’ll just extend the nuclear option again.

I don’t know if they are willing to go that far. It is one thing to get rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court confirmations, but quite another to get rid of it altogether. Also remember the Republicans must consider the future when the Dems have the majority in the Senate.

They’re not going to abolish altogether at once; they’ll chisel at it step by step during the next eighteen months. They’re going to make sure the democrats never gain a majority in the senate in the near future.

Warbler said:

hopefully the bill will get filibustered in the Senate.

They’ll just extend the nuclear option again.

Thank you, Democrats, for filibustering Gorsuch’s confirmation.

The House Republicans just destroyed healthcare in this country. It could fail in the Senate, but I doubt that’s going to happen.

Republicans are nothing but a bunch of remorseless monsters that want to push their agenda across, even if 99% of the country opposes it. I’m sure the few who opposed this horrendous law are going to lose their primaries to even more extremist candidates in heavily gerrymandered districts.

They all think like President Trump; the moderates are just the ones who act like they don’t.

SilverWook said:

generalfrevious said:

I’m sick of the Russian hacking conspiracy. Let’s instead focus on the real problems, like the GOP taking away people’s healthcare, or gutting environmental policy, or the executive branch trying to destroy free speech.

All equally valid concerns, but if you think they aren’t trying to pull this crap in other countries’ elections, and won’t try messing with ours again in 2020, I have some lovely Florida swampland you might be interested in.

You may be right about Russia’s interference, but the truth is that Trump is not going to be impeached over this like The #resistance hopes. Instead, Dems should have focused on the rust belt states Trump ended up winning, and maybe not have blindly made Hillary the nominee in the first place. Then we wouldn’t be bitching about Russia meddling in our last election, and it wouldn’t be as serious a charge as it is today.

I’m sick of the Russian hacking conspiracy. Let’s instead focus on the real problems, like the GOP taking away people’s healthcare, or gutting environmental policy, or the executive branch trying to destroy free speech.

Looks like the GOP wants to pass the AHCA again:
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/3/15531702/ahca-republicans-lying

On top of that, it also looks like the Trump administration wants to start silencing critics:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/libel-laws-change-president-trump/story?id=47128197
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/2/15518574/desiree-fairooz-justice-department